So I can "COME AGAIN" just like the song said! I'm right behind paul on that list of his. Unlike some here, I really really miss "Delivering the Goods!"Your dry friend in S.E.Fla.Pete54 years old, Surgury, Radical Prostatectomy 8/20/03, PSA 6.6, Gleason 3 + 3 = 6, Adenocarcinoma extent (moderate) Stage & Margin:T2NOMX, No Metastases, Organ Confined, bone scan: Neg. Testosterone Theropy since 12/06. I am's what I am and that's all that I am!!!

I hear ya Pete. I miss delivering the goods too, but on the bright side (and I've said this before here) now we gents can fake it like some of the gals, when necessary. Just scream ooh and aah a few times, do a couple of kegels (for the contraction effect) and she'll never know the difference!!! No more need for physical evidence!!LOLBest to ya.

D.O.B - 8/9/52

PSA: First ever was 9.8 in late Oct. ‘06, two weeks later, 10.1

DRE: Negative

Biopsy results 11/22/06. Both lobes involved. Six out of eight cores positive - from 100 percent to 90, to 60, to 50, two 20s and two zeros.

Thanks for the laughs, guys! And PianoMan, I showed your post to my wife and she could not stop laughing. On second thought, maybe that wasn't a good idea. Now she'll be wondering the next time I climax!

And by the way, I think it's absolutely fantastic that we have a sense of humor about this aspect of PC. Better to laugh than sulk.Diagnosed: March 25, 2007. Age 49Biopsy: Gleason 6. Five of twelve samples positive with <5% each. No perineural invasion seen.

Continence: Out of pads at five weeks. Seven months post-op I'm fully continent.Erections: Yes! With the assistance of Cialis. Post Surgery PSA: Three tests, all <0.1Family history: Great-great grandfather died from PC. My Father had his prostate removed at age 67 in 1997 and has had an undetectable PSA ever since. I was diagnosed at a much earlier age and had a more agressive cancer than my father. Go figure.

And besides, I'm so used to peeing like a twelve year old again I don't think I could ever go back to standing at a urinal and waiting...waiting...waiting

And Tony, I ran a 5K road race this past weekend and wore a shirt I had madeup up that said on the back, "I'm Running For Men With Prostate Cancer." I received a lot of comments and of course the "oh, that's not the bad cancer, is it." I just shook my head and told them what I always do, "There is no good cancer, my friend."

Diagnosed: March 25, 2007. Age 49Biopsy: Gleason 6. Five of twelve samples positive with <5% each. No perineural invasion seen.

Continence: Out of pads at five weeks. Seven months post-op I'm fully continent.Erections: Yes! With the assistance of Cialis. Post Surgery PSA: Three tests, all <0.1Family history: Great-great grandfather died from PC. My Father had his prostate removed at age 67 in 1997 and has had an undetectable PSA ever since. I was diagnosed at a much earlier age and had a more agressive cancer than my father. Go figure.

The search for timber: took Viagra/Cialis approx. every other day, ErecAid once a day, injections. Peyronie's diagnosed 7/5/07. Now on daily Cialis, L-arginine and pentoxyfylline. Peyronies has stabilized and significantly reversed.

Okay, we could make our own. Maybe like a fuel injection that gives your lady a nice warm spray. 12/06/07 DaVinci and open prostate surgery after difficulties in breathing stopped the davinci.Walked a lot90% control the day the catherter removed.pad only for a sneeze before the week was outNo pads most of the second week.

Snicker, snicker. I should have added the word "inside" spray.12/06/07 DaVinci and open prostate surgery after difficulties in breathing stopped the davinci.Walked a lot90% control the day the catherter removed.pad only for a sneeze before the week was outNo pads most of the second week.

They can already grow a prostate, but no attempts have been made in human yet, though it is probably easier than most organs. Scientists are already growing back fingers, growing working bladders, heart tissue and so on... within the next 5-10 years we'll probably see organs available for everything, or better still, the ability to regrow these organs. Really, it's not that far away anymore ;)CR Blood results http://www.matthewlake.plus.com/results.htm

I think the key here would be to transplant the entire "sub-assembly", from penis, testicles, prostate, nerve bundles surrounding the capsule.

Hook up some blood vessels, splice some nerves, attach the top of the prostate to the bladder neck, and voila!

Now where do we find a surgeon to do it?

I'm thinking a young drive-by shooting victim as the donor.

Small prostate, young testicles, lots of testosterone.

Robotic Surgery 11-2008 at 64 PC totally contained within capsule

Diagnosed 6-2008 w/ Gleason 6 & PSA 6.5

Subsequent PSA tests show undetectable PSA

Dry the day after the catheter removed, some erectile capability at 3 wks, slowly but surely getting better, wife loves the pump. I can achieve an erection sufficient for penetration, but she needs more. Daily Cialis or Viagra, purchased overseas - my insurance won't cover it. Viagra works better, faster, but Cialis doesn't stuff up my nose as bad

Testosterone replacement therapy for two months to counteract the effect of a Lupron shot (was originally going to get a Brachy, BIG MISTAKE. Thank God for second opinions). Natural testosterone production came back, one of the lucky ones.

Why would ANYONE have EBRT or Brachy (the shot in the dark) when robotic RP has become such a great solution? Except maybe to put your urologist's kids through college? The run-up to the aborted Brachy cost me more than the entire robotic RP! I can see Proton Beam - a good solution if you live in So Cal or Houston and have two months for the daily treatments, but conventional radiation?? Why not leeches and blood letting at your local barber shop?

Any of you guys on HT having erections? I want to be interested again, but my desire is about as small as my testicles have become? Oh, has anyone on HT noticed a difference in their testees?

I never realized how much of what drove me was fueled by testosterone until now. I'm REALLY thinking about stopping the anti-hormones making August my last shot. That will give me a full year on it, and while I know its rocommened that the HT continue for at least 2 years, I'm just "too not me" without the hormone. Did someone say "easy cancer?" Blah!

Name: Tony Born: 1951

Diagnosed PCA 7/23/2008; Prostate Volume 19 grams

Cancer Location: Right Mid and Right Apex 2 of 12 cores positive

Percentage of tissue involves 14% Gleason 3+4=7 4+4=8

PSA levels 6/08/08 7.7; 6/30/08 6.8

Began HT Zoladex 8/26/2008

As of 9/11/08 I am waiting to start IMRT IGRT

September 23, 2008 after one month of Zoladex PSA 2.83 - Testosterone 16

October 22, 2008: First day of IMRT. I am receiving 1.8 grays per day over a period of 43 days.

I think the key here would be to transplant the entire "sub-assembly", from penis, testicles, prostate, nerve bundles surrounding the capsule.

Hook up some blood vessels, splice some nerves, attach the top of the prostate to the bladder neck, and voila!

Now where do we find a surgeon to do it?

I'm thinking a young drive-by shooting victim as the donor.

Small prostate, young testicles, lots of testosterone.

Robotic Surgery 11-2008 at 64 PC totally contained within capsule

Diagnosed 6-2008 w/ Gleason 6 & PSA 6.5

Subsequent PSA tests show undetectable PSA

Dry the day after the catheter removed, some erectile capability at 3 wks, slowly but surely getting better, wife loves the pump. I can achieve an erection sufficient for penetration, but she needs more. Daily Cialis or Viagra, purchased overseas - my insurance won't cover it. Viagra works better, faster, but Cialis doesn't stuff up my nose as bad

Testosterone replacement therapy for two months to counteract the effect of a Lupron shot (was originally going to get a Brachy, BIG MISTAKE. Thank God for second opinions). Natural testosterone production came back, one of the lucky ones.

Why would ANYONE have EBRT or Brachy (the shot in the dark) when robotic RP has become such a great solution? Except maybe to put your urologist's kids through college? The run-up to the aborted Brachy cost me more than the entire robotic RP! I can see Proton Beam - a good solution if you live in So Cal or Houston and have two months for the daily treatments, but conventional radiation?? Why not leeches and blood letting at your local barber shop?

Good Morning KEYWESTPIRATE:

I am presently investigating Brachytherapy as a treatment alternative and am interested in your reference to the procedure as -the shot in the dark- would you kindly provide some details of your experience and the aborted Brachy you refer to.

63 years old-tumor discovered on digital exam- biopsy December 2008-

4 of 12 samples positive-all on right side

Gleason 3+3=6

PSA-3

Otherwise excellent health.

"There may come a day when the courage of men will fail, but it will not be this day."